U.S. Consumer Product Safety Comm, Division of Procurement Services, Rm 517, Washington, DC 20207-9932

B -- ELECTRONIC "SURROGATE" CIGARETTE LIGHTERS POC Beverly Y. Wells, (301) 504-0444 x1156 WEB: CPSC Homepage, http://www.cpsc.gov/businfo/contract.html. E-MAIL: g: users adcb rdwrite cbd ss970002.cbd, W-338 SN008207. The Consumer Product Safety Commission is seeking to identify Engineering firms with expertise in electronic circuit design and fabrication. The Safety Standard for Cigarette Lighters (16 CFR Part 1210) requires the use of electronic surrogate lighters in testing to determine the lighter's ability to resist operation by young children. Because the testing is conducted using panels of pre-school children, the surrogate lighters do not produce a flame. They produce an audible or visual signal that will be clearly discernible when the surrogate lighter is activated in each manner that would normally produce a flame in a lighter intended for use by consumers. Each surrogate lighter must be the same in appearance, size, shape, and weight of the lighter intended for use by consumers. Each surrogate lighter must be identical, within reasonable manufacturing tolerances, to the lighter intended for use by consumers in all factors that affect child resistance (including operation and the forces required for operation). There are six (6) surrogate lighters in each set of lighters. The Engineering firm shall be qualified and able to convert production cigarette lighters into electronic "surrogate" cigarette lighters. The Engineering Firms shall be capable in the Mechanical and Electrical Engineering disciplines with particular emphasis in the area of microelectronics. This is not a formal Request for Quotation/Proposal. However, firms that respond should furnish detailed information concerning their capabilities to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Division of Procurement Services, Room 517, 4330 East West Hwy, Bethesda, MD 20814-4408. Capability information must be received in the Division of Procurement Services no later than August 15, 1997.***** (0205)

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